Salt Tolerant Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Iowa

* The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. * Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. Established plants are drought tolerant.

* Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

The leaves ("needles") are thinner and more flexible in western populations. * Pinus nigra is a large coniferous evergreen tree, growing to 20–55 metres (66–180 ft) high at maturity and spreading to 20 to 40 feet wide.

The shoots are orange-brown, with scattered pubescence. The cones are cylindric-conic, 6-15 cm long and 2-3 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, rounded to bluntly pointed scales.

* 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

It is native to southern Europe . * The Common Rue ( Ruta graveolens ), also known as Herb-of-grace , is a species of rue grown as a herb . * Rue has a long history of use as a domestic remedy, being especially valued for its strengthening action on the...

With the Big Leaf or French Hydrangea , Hydrangea macrophylla , the flower color (the sepals, as a unit they are florets, are actually the part we most enjoy but they do look so much like petals themselves) will vary depending on soil pH.

* A teaspoon of crushed seeds has long been used as a form of natural birth control; its use for this purpose was first described by Hippocrates over 2,000 years ago. * The flower clusters can be french-fried to produce a carrot-flavoured gourmet's delight.

It is native to central North America. * Succeeds in fresh or salt water marshes and in ordinary garden soil. * Spartina pectinata is a species of cordgrass known by the common name prairie cordgrass .

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa...

* Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) .

* Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers to almost 3'; native to China. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread.

Also known as The Common or European Privel, this tree is often used as a hedge. Privets are fast growers and do well as long as they are planted in well-drained soil. Plant indoors or out in full sun and shade in warmer climates.

* This perennial blooms late in the season and makes a great transition along shady edges.

* It is occasionally seen on the California coast where it is an introduced species and landscaping escapee. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped...

Tolerates drought. The violet-blue flowers are similar to other cultivars of this species except they are held on purple stems that provide an added element of texture. Remove spent flower spikes to help extend the bloom period.

It is drought-tolerant and grows on dry, rocky soil. * The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures.

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico .

It is also known as the Japanese Five Needle Pine ( Pinus pentaphylla ). The leaves are needle-like, in bundles of five, with a length of 5–6 cm. * The Japanese White Pine ( Pinus parviflora ) is a pine in the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus...

* Maritime pine is closely related to Turkish pine, Canary Island pine and Aleppo pine, which all share many features with it. It is very tolerant of maritime exposure, but may require staking when it is young.

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa...

* A widespread urban myth is that pampas grass is used by swingers to advertise their presence to other swingers in the area. * A fibre obtained from the leaves is used for making paper.

* The flowers are the most striking feature, being sweetly fragrant white trumpets up to 20 cm (8 inches) long, often tinted purple, especially at the margin. * Datura wrightii has also been used to induce hallucination for recreational purposes.

* This essential oil is emitted from the plant in hot weather and, on a still day, can be ignited and will burn for a second or two without harming the plant, thus giving the plant its common name.

Good when added to soups they also make an excellent jelly. It typically grows on dry to moist sandy and gravel soils in steppes, meadows or woodland edges. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.

The seed is soft like a cashew nut and has a slight flavour of pine nuts. * Araucaria araucana is a popular garden tree, planted for its unusual effect of the thick, 'reptilian' branches with a very symmetrical appearance.